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Exact Match:

lean

not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"

lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"

containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"

cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"

to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"

Synonyms:

• Lenten,
• Spartan,
• abstemious,
• acquiesce,
• agree,
• angular,
• angularity,
• arid,
• ascend,
• ascetic,
• austere,
• bad,
• bald,
• bank,
• bare,
• barren,
• be agreeable to,
• be dying to,
• be eager,
• be game,
• be open to,
• be ready,
• be spoiling for,
• be willing,
• believe in,
• bend,
• bend to,
• bias,
• bony,
• candid,
• cant,
• careen,
• climb,
• collaborate,
• common,
• commonplace,
• conduce,
• consent,
• contribute,
• cooperate,
• count on,
• cow,
• curve,
• decline,
• deflect,
• depend on,
• descend,
• destitute,
• difficult,
• dip,
• direct,
• dispose,
• divert,
• drop,
• dry,
• dull,
• dwarfed,
• dwarfish,
• emaciated,
• endanger,
• exiguous,
• fall,
• fall away,
• fall off,
• favor,
• flat,
• flat-chested,
• fleshless,
• frank,
• frighten,
• frugal,
• gangling,
• gangly,
• gaunt,
• gawky,
• go,
• go along with,
• go downhill,
• go uphill,
• grade,
• gradient,
• gravitate,
• haggard,
• hard,
• have a tendency,
• head,
• heel,
• homely,
• homespun,
• imperil,
• impoverished,
• inclination,
• incline,
• indigent,
• infertile,
• intimidate,
• jejune,
• keel,
• lank,
• lanky,
• lead,
• lean on,
• lean towards,
• lean-fleshed,
• lean-looking,
• leaning,
• leaning tower,
• limited,
• list,
• look,
• look kindly upon,
• look to,
• matter-of-fact,
• meager,
• mean,
• menace,
• miserly,
• narrow,
• natural,
• neat,
• necessitous,
• needy,
• niggardly,
• not hesitate to,
• open,
• paltry,
• parsimonious,
• penurious,
• pinched,
• pitch,
• plain,
• plain-speaking,
• plain-spoken,
• plunge,
• plunge into,
• point,
• point to,
• poor,
• poverty-stricken,
• precipitate,
• prefer,
• pressure,
• prosaic,
• prosing,
• prosy,
• puny,
• pure,
• rake,
• rangy,
• rawboned,
• recline,
• redound to,
• rely on,
• retreat,
• rightful,
• rise,
• rustic,
• scant,
• scanty,
• scare,
• scraggy,
• scrawny,
• scrimp,
• scrimpy,
• serve,
• set,
• set toward,
• settle,
• severe,
• sheer,
• shelve,
• show a tendency,
• shrunken,
• sidle,
• simple,
• simple-speaking,
• sink,
• skeletal,
• skimp,
• skimpy,
• skinny,
• slant,
• slender,
• slight,
• slim,
• slope,
• small,
• sober,
• spare,
• sparing,
• sparse,
• spidery,
• spindling,
• spindly,
• stark,
• starvation,
• stingy,
• stinted,
• straightforward,
• straitened,
• stunted,
• subside,
• subsistence,
• swag,
• sway,
• tend,
• tend to go,
• terrify,
• terrorize,
• thin,
• thin-bellied,
• thin-fleshed,
• threaten,
• tilt,
• tip,
• tower of Pisa,
• trend,
• trust in,
• turn,
• twiggy,
• unadorned,
• unaffected,
• undersized,
• underweight,
• unfruitful,
• unimaginative,
• unnourishing,
• unnutritious,
• unpoetical,
• unproductive,
• unvarnished,
• uprise,
• verge,
• warn,
• warp,
• wasted,
• watered,
• watery,
• wiry,
• work toward,
• would as leave,
• would as lief